Antoni is SUPER-qualified!!! For a job as the ghost in The Turn of the Screw! Look at his wide empty ghost Aryan eyes. Note his lifeless pallor, skin drained of the blood of vitality. Most of all, witness the steady stare of the GHOUL who would consume the lives of children remorselessly because (being a ghoul) it has no conscience.
Or maybe The Shining! Or put him in a window at The Conjuring--he comes pre-Conjured! He has many uses...just not as an economist, because for that one he lacks all talent or relevant expertise.
A Bismark fanboy? He's one of THOSE people? Ugh. Pop history sources are full of them. The Bismark, Tiger tanks, Me 262's, all that rot. Most people who are into WWII tech will give these Nazi machines their due, in a limited way. They all had a few good points, as machines, because Germans are capable engineers. They all came with massive liabilities, because Germans were always kind of weak when it came to whole industrial economies and logistics, and the Nazi system specifically was systemically stupid.
The Bismark, for example, was quite well designed and built when it came to its ability to withstand a beating. It was also filled with critical subsystems that were poorly designed, obsolete, or prematurely adopted high tech. It was undergunned even by pre-war standards (the main guns it had been designed around still didn't work and a less capable gun had to be substituted...fewer of them, too, since they also hadn't been able to make the bigger turrets work, either. It had a fire control system that was too sophisticated to deal with the obsolete, slow-moving biplanes that their main naval adversary continued to use. It had a rudder system that was shockingly vulnerable to torpedo damage. Like other much-ballyhooed Nazi weapons, it was formidable in favorable circumstances but cripplingly vulnerable in any other circumstance.
But the Nazi fanboys don't care about any of that shit. The Bismark sank the Hood! Yeah, like the Hood was a thirty year old design that was desperately overdue for modernization. Hood was so old that the type she actually was, what would later be known as a "fast battleship," didn't even exist yet, so the British called her a Battlecruiser, based on her speed. Thatst sound like a weird criticism, but it means that the WWI technology she was built with was JUST BARELY good enough to combine high speed with battleship guns (of WWI size).and battleship armor. And of course that resulted in design compromises.
I completely agree with your husband. Germans are very good at getting highly specific performance goals in highly specific ways, which is what Iran by “capable engineers.” Their focus on that to the exclusion of any other consideration is baffling, though.
Thing is, they're perfectly capable of designing for simplicity, reliability and ease of repair. Look at Ferdinand Porsche's other famous car, the VW Beetle. And yet the cars that bear his name are only Mid when it comes to over-engineered over-specialization. He also designed both versions of the Tiger, the Elephant, and the Maus, all mechanical nightmares born from a Nazi obsession with building an invulnerable tank rather than coming up with something that was just good enough to ambush and destroy Soviet tanks and, technically, need not actually be a true tank at all.
I'm an engineer in the auto industry and we joke about the Germans in saying, "Why do it with 3 crudely machined parts when you can do it with 8 finely machined parts, two solenoids and a control unit..." But it works *sooo* good... (When it isn't out of adjustment or just plain broken.)
No argument with that, but I would like to point out that NIU has an excellent College of Education that has consistently ranked among the best education schools in the U.S. My mother got her degree there in 1935 and my oldest sister followed in her footsteps in 1965.
He seems like the kind of guy who you'd see sitting alone in the dining hall at college, so you'd go sit with him to be nice, and then after talking to him for 10 minutes, you'd realize why he was sitting alone.
He looks like 'Jaws' era Roy Scheider, on meth.
I'm gonna enjoy watching Trump destroy this googly-eyed dipshit.
Antoni is SUPER-qualified!!! For a job as the ghost in The Turn of the Screw! Look at his wide empty ghost Aryan eyes. Note his lifeless pallor, skin drained of the blood of vitality. Most of all, witness the steady stare of the GHOUL who would consume the lives of children remorselessly because (being a ghoul) it has no conscience.
Or maybe The Shining! Or put him in a window at The Conjuring--he comes pre-Conjured! He has many uses...just not as an economist, because for that one he lacks all talent or relevant expertise.
A Bismark fanboy? He's one of THOSE people? Ugh. Pop history sources are full of them. The Bismark, Tiger tanks, Me 262's, all that rot. Most people who are into WWII tech will give these Nazi machines their due, in a limited way. They all had a few good points, as machines, because Germans are capable engineers. They all came with massive liabilities, because Germans were always kind of weak when it came to whole industrial economies and logistics, and the Nazi system specifically was systemically stupid.
The Bismark, for example, was quite well designed and built when it came to its ability to withstand a beating. It was also filled with critical subsystems that were poorly designed, obsolete, or prematurely adopted high tech. It was undergunned even by pre-war standards (the main guns it had been designed around still didn't work and a less capable gun had to be substituted...fewer of them, too, since they also hadn't been able to make the bigger turrets work, either. It had a fire control system that was too sophisticated to deal with the obsolete, slow-moving biplanes that their main naval adversary continued to use. It had a rudder system that was shockingly vulnerable to torpedo damage. Like other much-ballyhooed Nazi weapons, it was formidable in favorable circumstances but cripplingly vulnerable in any other circumstance.
But the Nazi fanboys don't care about any of that shit. The Bismark sank the Hood! Yeah, like the Hood was a thirty year old design that was desperately overdue for modernization. Hood was so old that the type she actually was, what would later be known as a "fast battleship," didn't even exist yet, so the British called her a Battlecruiser, based on her speed. Thatst sound like a weird criticism, but it means that the WWI technology she was built with was JUST BARELY good enough to combine high speed with battleship guns (of WWI size).and battleship armor. And of course that resulted in design compromises.
𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑎𝑙𝑙 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑎 𝑓𝑒𝑤 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑠, 𝑎𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠, 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝐺𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑝𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑟𝑠.
Yeah, you should have told that to my husband when he was restoring his old Porsche.
𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑚𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠, 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝐺𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑘 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑤ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑠...
Yes, my husband would definitely agree with that when he was restoring his old Porsche.
All you have to do is say the words "German engineering" and he's off on a rant for a half-hour, lol!
I completely agree with your husband. Germans are very good at getting highly specific performance goals in highly specific ways, which is what Iran by “capable engineers.” Their focus on that to the exclusion of any other consideration is baffling, though.
Thing is, they're perfectly capable of designing for simplicity, reliability and ease of repair. Look at Ferdinand Porsche's other famous car, the VW Beetle. And yet the cars that bear his name are only Mid when it comes to over-engineered over-specialization. He also designed both versions of the Tiger, the Elephant, and the Maus, all mechanical nightmares born from a Nazi obsession with building an invulnerable tank rather than coming up with something that was just good enough to ambush and destroy Soviet tanks and, technically, need not actually be a true tank at all.
I'm an engineer in the auto industry and we joke about the Germans in saying, "Why do it with 3 crudely machined parts when you can do it with 8 finely machined parts, two solenoids and a control unit..." But it works *sooo* good... (When it isn't out of adjustment or just plain broken.)
Why would we trust someone that doesn't even wear a flag pin?
Guys don't wear crosses because it would draw the eye to their sallow chests.
Does the Heritage Foundation run a vast farm of Breeding Vats?
And they raise pigs for the experiments that don't work out.
Animal/Human hybrids just as Dubya predict-warned!!!
Damn! The man was a genius!
Troo!
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘶𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘨𝘰, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘕𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘐𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘰𝘪𝘴 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘺. 𝘐𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶’𝘷𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘵, 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘦𝘥 #269 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘧 439, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘰𝘱 10 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘰𝘪𝘴.
No argument with that, but I would like to point out that NIU has an excellent College of Education that has consistently ranked among the best education schools in the U.S. My mother got her degree there in 1935 and my oldest sister followed in her footsteps in 1965.
But I have been told it one of the hundred top ten programs in the State.
𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦
Okay Dems, erect every blockade in your arsenal to make sure this doesn't happen and if there are any sane republicans remaining, enlist their help.
Useless waste of flesh.
usually you see that facial expression on a city councilman after they've been arrested for solicitation
Be fair. There's a little evangelical youth minister in there, too.
true that
Conservatives are always complaining about affirmative action and DEI and then they hire morons like this guy.
Heritage Foundation -not an innocuous white, christian fellowship organization.
Didn't that guy play the title character in the "The Wizard" video by T.Rex?
The watch fob tells us he's serious.
Seriously clueless -- and, thus, a fine Republican. Poor doofus, like Trump, has never had a friend teach him how to put on a suit? Sad.
He seems like the kind of guy who you'd see sitting alone in the dining hall at college, so you'd go sit with him to be nice, and then after talking to him for 10 minutes, you'd realize why he was sitting alone.
That guy is astoundingly creepy looking. Like Steven Miller creepy. Pardon me while I go look at puppy videos.